Rope-clamp



A. D. LIGHTNER.

ROPE CLAMP.

APPLICATION FILE-D `DECJ. 1917.

1 ,343, l 77. Patented June 8, 1920.

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PATENT ARTHUR ID. LIGHTNER, 0F TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 THE WILLYS-OVERLAND COMPANY, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application led December 7. 1917. Serial No. 206,117.

To all whom it may concern:

3e it known that'I, ARTHUR D. Licrrrnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and Stateof Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rope-Clamps, of which 1 declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved rope clamp. In shipping motor vehicles, it is customary to fasten the wheels thereof to the floor of the railroad car by means of a piece of rope or fabric passed around the spokes and felly of the wheel., the ends of said rope or fabric being secured to the lioor of the car.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an improved rope clamp for securing the ends of the rope to the floor of the car, this clamp being of such a nature as to prevent the rope pulling out of the clamp so as to insure the motor vehicle being firmly and securely fastened to the floor of the car.

A further object of my invention is to provide an improved rope clamp of the class described, which can be very quickly, cheaply and conveniently-manufactured, and which is of such a nature that the rope can be very quickly and conveniently secured to the vHoor of the car by means of this clamp.

Further objects, and objects relating to economies of manufacture and details of construction will definitely appear from the detailed description to follow.

I accomplish the obj ects of my invention by the devices and means described in the following specification. My invention is clearly defined and pointed out in the appended claims.

A structure constituting a preferred embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which:

Figure I is a view in side elevation, illustrating clamps, constructed in accordance with my invention, used for securing the wheel of a motor vehicle to the floor of a car.

Fig. II is a top plan view showing a clamp securing in place the end of a rope.

Fig. III is a detail, sectional view, taken on the line III-III of Fig. II, and

Fig. IV is a detail, perspective view of a rope clamp.

In the drawings, similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views, and the sectional view is taken looking in the direction of the little arrows at the ends of the section line.

Considering the numbered parts of the drawing, I have shown a rope clamp comprising the base flanges 10, and the'U-shaped central portion 11, which is struck up from the base flange 10. Openings 12 are provided through the base ianges by means of which the clamp may be nailed to the floor. lOpenings 123 are provided through the top of the U-shaped central portion 11, and a groove 14C is struck downwardly, transversely of the central portion 11, as clearly shown in the drawing.

I have indicated the iioor of a railroad car, or other relatively fixed part, by the reference numeral 15. The wheel of a motor vehicle is indicated at 16 and the spokes at 17. The wheel is secured in place by passing the rope 1S around the spoke 17, and securing the ends of the rope to the floor 15 by means of the improved rope clamp, which I have described. lIhe clamp is secured to the floor 15 by means of nails 19, which are driven through the openings 12 in the base flanges 10 of the clamp. The rope 18 lies in the U- shaped central portion 11 of the clamp and the downwardly-struck groove 1li, which forms a rib on the inner side of the U-shaped portion 11, pinches into the rope, as clearly shown in Fig. III. Nails 2O are driven through the openings 13 and the rope 18 into the floor 15.

It will be seen that, by means of this clamp, I have provided an improved device for securing the ends of a rope. 'Ihe projecting rib 14, where it projects on the under side of the curved central portion 11, bites into the rope 18, so as to prevent its being pulled laterally of the clamp, and the nails 20, which pass through the openings 13 and the rope 18, also serve to prevent the rope being pulled out. T he clamp is very conveniently secured to the floor 15 by the nails 19.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A securing device comprising a U- shaped central portion provided with a transverse groove formed therein, and base flanges extending in opposite directions from the U-shziped portieri and adapted to benttztched to a plane surface whereby the U- shaped portion may serve as :L securing means for L ieXible member.

2. A securing device comprising a. U- shaped central portion provided with a de-` pressed portion formed therein and adept-` ed to secure a. eXible member to a plane surface, securing devices adapted to be passed through the U-shaped central portion and the flexible member, base ienges extending in opposite directions from the U-shaped portion, and means for securing the bese flanges to a plane surface whereby the flexibie Vmember is engaged by the U-shztped portion and retained against movement relative to the plane surface.

3. A rope securing device comprising in combination, a pair oi' base flanges, and a. bridge portion connecting said flanges and adapted to bridge the rope to be secured, said bridge portion having :in inwardly projecting portion adapted to grip Ysaid rope, the

ARTHUR D. LIGHTNER. 

